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Hi Bold Bakers!
Yes, you can enjoy delicious Homemade Sorbet at home without the need for an ice cream machine. Once you try this Sorbet you will be hooked!
My Homemade Sorbet is made using the exact same logic and engineering as my 2 ingredient No Machine Ice Cream recipe. You need an ingredient (e.g. frozen fruit) to give you a thick base and you add liquid sugar (e.g. condensed milk) to help it freeze. So I thought, why can’t I apply my ice cream technique to a sorbet? Well, you can, I did, it works and it’s awesome!
By definition my recipe is technically more of a sherbet than a sorbet because it contains milk but personally I think it is more of a sorbet than anything.
Condensed Milk is an important ingredient in this recipe and can’t be left out. If you cannot buy it easily then I’ll do you one better and show you how you can make your own. The recipe is very simple and probably more cost effective than buying it in the store. You can find my Homemade Condensed Milk recipe here.
Although I use condensed milk this recipe can be made Vegan by using Dairy Free Condensed Milk. It’s simply made using coconut milk and sugar so this condensed milk is perfect for sorbet and also my Dairy Free Ice Cream recipe. If you do dairy free baking (or just like the taste of coconut) my Dairy Free Condensed Milk recipe is really handy to have a stash in the fridge and it stays fresh for weeks.
Want even more Sorbet flavors? Check out my Cantaloupe & Mint Sorbet, Raspberry Sorbet, Mango & Passion Fruit Sorbet and Chocolate & Banana Sorbet.
Also, you can buy the same ice cream containers I use here on Amazon and check out a few of my favorite frozen treat accessories below.
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Homemade Strawberry & Lime Sorbet in 5 minutes (No Machine)
Ingredients
- 3 cups (15oz/390g) strawberries, frozen
- Zest from 1 whole lime
- ¼ cup (70g/2 ½ oz) fat-free condensed milk
Instructions
- Combine the berries, lime zest and the condensed milk in a food processor or powerful blender and process until smooth and creamy.
- Transfer to a freezable container and let it firm up for about 4 hours to be able to scoop
- Keep in the freezer for up to 6 weeks.
Recipe Notes
PointsPlus: 2
Nice recipe but sadly this isn’t a sorbet. A sorbet is made without milk products. It’s very important to distinguish this because many people who are allergic to milk protein or lactose buy “sorbets” instead of ice-cream because of this. This is more of an actual ice-cream and should thus be called that to avoid confusion.
Hi Gemma,
Soooo happy I “stumbled” across your website this evening. I made the full cream condensed milk and wondered if you have a recipe for the fat-free condensed milk…would that be the dairy free recipe on your site? Thanks in advance 🙂
Holy moly, Gemma! This is sooooo tasty! Strawberries were on sale at the grocery store, and I think I’m going to have to go back for more! I hope I can wait until this freezes to taste it. I’m also really interested in trying this again with coconut cream and maybe icing (powdered) sugar for sweetness. Think that would work? I saw your recipe for sweetened condensed milk, and that it can be made with coconut milk, but I love the convenience of using premade ingredients for desserts when I’ve already spent time cooking dinner. I ‘m going to try… Read more »
Are you sure it’s 390g because that looks a lot! Especially only to make that much( shown in the video in the cup)
Hello Gemma! As I told you before I was going to make this sorbet. I made the Strawberry and Lime flavor today and it was fantastic! It is almost done freezing but I tasted it before hand. 🙂 The only feed back is that it does tast a little like a smoothie do to the condensed milk which gave it a milky tast. It is still lovely though. Yum.
i tried this recipe and it was amazing! i used an immersion blender and i came out wonderful! (it came out all hard and frozen when i got it out of the freezer but i left it out for abt 15 to 20 mins and it came out perfect!) thanks
Hi this was an awsome recipe it tastes really good !
tried making in a blender but after freezing, I need a hammer and chisel to get it out, now trying food processor
I love your receipt I made strawberry, mango and strawberry banana
Thank you
Yikes! This recipe does NOT work in a blender. The frozen fruit wasn’t moving around & the motor started burning. So I took everything out & put it in my Mix ‘n Chop (I wish I had a food processor, but I don’t), which really worked my arm muscles & made the concoction into a fruit salsa. Ha ha!
It was very tasty though & we had a good laugh eating it.